The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-05-12
REsa.IlTIoSs aE RESPECT.


On Saturday evening the Logan
Bar met and pre- pared resolutions
published below.
On Monday afternoon, Mr.. o.
". H. Wright presented the Res
oluiions. Judge Friesner, Col.
Weldy and S. Il. Bright made re,
marks fitting to the occasion, af
ter which, out of respect, Court
adjourned.
The following are the ResoIu.
tions:
Thc.undcrsigned Committee from the
Hooking County Bar, submit the follow
ing memoir and sketch Of the services
and character of Judge Grogan. n men,
bcr Of said Bar, who departed this lie
on the 9Th day OF May, 1887.
Jane Raymond Grogan was born at
Lockport, New York. October 90, 1925,
of Irish parentage. When one year old
his parents, Thomas and Ruth Bowes
Grogan, removed to Ohio, and settled
near Straitsville, Perry county. lie
received an elem en;ary education in
the district schools, but obtained the
greater part of his education by private
study at the Dominican Convent School
of St. Joseph, in Perry county. lie be-
gan the study of law in 1916. and was
admitted 10 the bar in the fall Of 1919,
hut did not commence the practice Of
his profession till 1855. In April, lSi7.
he was employed in the Quartermas-
ter's Department Of the U. 5. Army in
Mexico, and served until the end Of the
war, being stationed near Puebla. Af-
ter the war he returned to Hooking
county, and in October. 1919, was elect
ed County Recorder, and reelected in
. 1852, serving six years. Ia 1851 he
became the editor and proprietor OF
the Hooking Sentinel. which he suc-
cessfuly conducted until in 1859. when
he disposed of the same and turned his
whole attention to the law. In 1852 he
was by Gov. Tod appointed Chairman
of the Military Committee OF Hooking
County, in which capacity he actively
participated in the raising and organic
ing oi troops for the Union asmy. until
the close OF the war He was in Isl
appointed Mayor Of Logan, and elect ed
to The same Office in 1865. In August
1886, he was appointed Judge OF th,
Court of Common Pleas OF this county
to FIJI the vacancy ocsasioned by th;
resignation of Judge Van Trump.
The life of Judge Grogan was some
what peculiar. Never having married
: he became less and less identified witt
society. His Office was his home
/ Here he read, and thought, and -slep
! in the same rooms for the last quartz,
of a century. With 10 womanly hand
l to conform him o modern society, hi
T excen,ricilies of habit and of though
grew upon him until it might almos. 5t
I said of him, he was without a mode
and without 4 shadow" He surround
l ed himself with Old and curious vol
: ames as well as modern and witt
4 equal avidity and seeming pleasure
;, ranged through ell the fields of litera
ture, from lightest romance and poet r,
e 20 profoundest logic. There was n,
: question of Law, or government, or sci
ence, or history upon which he had no
brought 10 bear his powers ofinvestiga
s ton. He was familiar with Theology
as far rs the lights of history have i |
lnmined, and had studied all the reli
c gions, ancient and modern. His mem
=, CRY was phenomenal. As lawyer h,
was more learned than practical bu
i previous to the failure OF his eye sigh
and health, he was powerful to both tn
court ard The jury ; in fact his brillian
e CT was often surprising. As citizer
$ he was patriotic and an ardent defende
of Cur republican form of government;
; The faculty of systematic money max
, ing was in him wholly undeveloped.-
He never appreciated any property
other than books. He never attempte
$ to make money except by dealing i